Ana Maria Pacheco

Brazilian , 1943
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Ana Maria Pacheco was born in Brazil in 1943. Following degrees in both Art and Music, she taught and lectured for several years at Universities in Goiás before coming to London in 1973 on a British Council Scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art. Since 1973 she has lived and worked in England. In 1999 she received the presitigious Ordem do Rio Branco from the Brazilian Government. She has received Honorary Degrees from the University of East Anglia and Anglia Polytechnic University and in 2003 was made a Fellow at University College London.

From 1997 to 2000 she was Associate Artist at the National Gallery, London. She was both the first non-European and the first sculptor to take up this appointment, which culminated in a major touring exhibition of her work.